Invest in ME statement - http://www.investinme.org/IIME-Newslet-1306-01.htm
"Thanks to a tremendous effort from (over 3500!) supporters and colleagues Invest in ME were able to win the Direct Debit The Big Break 100 good causes initiative for April. Apart from winning the first prize of £2000 - all of which has gone directly to the IiME Biomedical Research Fund to support biomedical research into ME - this has also created much needed awareness of ME in the public. Here is the Direct Debit press release .. "
Bacs Press Release:
Independent UK charity, Invest in ME (IiME), has received an unexpected windfall in a nationwide campaign to give 100 good causes a Big Break, courtesy of Bacs Payment Schemes Ltd (Bacs), the organisation behind Direct Debit.
"Thanks to a tremendous effort from (over 3500!) supporters and colleagues Invest in ME were able to win the Direct Debit The Big Break 100 good causes initiative for April. Apart from winning the first prize of £2000 - all of which has gone directly to the IiME Biomedical Research Fund to support biomedical research into ME - this has also created much needed awareness of ME in the public. Here is the Direct Debit press release .. "
Bacs Press Release:
Independent UK charity, Invest in ME (IiME), has received an unexpected windfall in a nationwide campaign to give 100 good causes a Big Break, courtesy of Bacs Payment Schemes Ltd (Bacs), the organisation behind Direct Debit.
Each month Bacs is setting aside a
£5,000 pot to be shared between charities and good causes and is encouraging
members of the public to vote for their most deserving good cause. The charity
with the most votes will win £2,000, the second most popular will win £1,000
and the remaining £2,000 will be shared between 200 runners-up.
Invest in ME, a charity run by
volunteers, campaigns for research and funding to establish a better
understanding of the causes of Myalgic Encephalomyeltis (M.E.) and help develop
better medical treatments for the illness. And the charity is now £2,000 better
off after coming out top in April’s public voting.
Mike Hutchinson, head of marketing at Bacs,
said: “The work that Invest in ME carries out is not only crucial for the
development of better treatments for the illness, it’s also carried out for
free by volunteers so it’s great to be able to support the charity and announce
it as the second winner in our Big Break initiative to help 100 good
causes.”
Kathleen McCall, chairman at Invest in
ME, adds: “We’re absolutely delighted to have won the £2,000 from the Big Break
campaign. One of the charity’s main objectives is to create a UK centre of
excellence, which can provide proper examinations and diagnosis for M.E patients
and the £2,000 prize money will go a long way in helping us to achieve this. On
behalf of all the volunteers at Invest in ME, I would like to thank everyone
who voted for us.”
Let's do it for ME supporters have energised biomedical ME research.
Thank you so much for your support fro, the team at Let's do it for ME!
Let's do it for ME supporters have energised biomedical ME research.
Thank you so much for your support fro, the team at Let's do it for ME!
